Leopold beandeis



(No Model.)

L. BRANDBIS.

SHIELD FOR WATER GLOSETS.

Patented Sept." 16,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- LEOPOLD PEANDEIs, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YOEK, AssIGNOE To JULIA EEANDEIs, OE sAME PLACE.

SHIELD FOR WATER-CLOSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,141, dated September 16, 1884.

Application filed April 11x 1884. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it mctyconcern:

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD BRANDEIs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the lcity of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and lState of N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shields for Tater-Closets,I of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in protecting-shields or drip -trays for waterclosets; and it consists in a shield provided with radial corrugations or channels for collecting the drippings and conveying them to the central opening, while the channels of the under side of the corrugated shield permit a free circulation of air between it and the seator wood support below, whereby all offensive odors or vapors arising from the closet are,

carried off andthe under side of the shield kept dry and oxidation thereof or rotting of the wood-work below the same prevented.

In the drawings, Figure l is a central vertical sectional elevation of a water-closet provided with my improved shield. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the shield, and Fig. 3 is a crosssection of the shield on the line 1 2 of Fig. 2.

In shields of this character heretofore coustructed with smooth surfaces, it has been found that small quantities of fluids are apt to be retained on the surface of the shield unless a verygrcat pitch toward the dischargeopening is given thereto, inasmuch as on a perfectly smooth surface, even though slightly inclined, a fluid will spread and be retained thereon until evaporation takes place, thus oxidizing or otherwise injuring the surfaces and giving rise to offensive odors. To overcome these objections I construct the shield A with radial corrugations a, or other suitable channels, for collecting and conveying the fluids from all parts of the shield to the central discharge-opening, b, therein, above the usual hopper, B, of the closet C. By this construction of the shield the retention of the drippings on its surface is prevented, as the fluids readily collect Vin the depressed channels and iiow freely therein to the dischargeopening, and are thereby prevented from spreading and standing on the face of the shield, thus overcoming the necessity of givy ing the surface thereof that steep inclination which would otherwise be unavoidable.

For the purpose of admitting fresh air at all times to the interior of the closet, I also corrugate the shield A ou the lower side, forming channels for the free circulation of air between the shield and wood-work supporting it, thus insuring a continuous circulation of pure air below the shield, and preventing the fouling of the closet by the collection of moisture, and also preventing the rotting of the wood-work, which would result if moisture collected between the shield and the wood. rllhe corrugations on the reverse side of the shield also extend to the edge of the centra-l opening therein, so as to conduct thereto any condensed vapors, and so that the air can circulate between the shield and the hopper at the point of discharge into the latter.

The shield A may be made of any suitable material-such as enameled nietal, rubber,V

gutta-percha, glass, or Crockery-ware of any kind, papier-mache, or nietal and glass coinbined-and may be pressed into shape between dies or molded in any well-known manner.

It is obvious that instead of having the en- -tire surface of the shield corrugated it may be provided with a less number diverging only from the corners thereof, the sides being sloped to discharge their fluids into the channels by Y LEOPOLD EnANDEIs.

Vitnesses:

, LUDWIG BnANnEIs, TIMOTHY GALvIN. 

